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MIGRATION (IRAQ - UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (NO. 1) 2001 NO. 240

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 240

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

Migration Act 1958

Migration (Iraq - United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1)

Subsection 504(1) of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed by the Act or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

Subsection 31(3) of the Act provides that the regulations may prescribe criteria for a visa or visas of a specified class.

The purpose of these Regulations is to repeal regulations dealing with travel restrictions on certain Iraqi officials and military personnel who did not cooperate with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM).

These Regulation will omit subregulations 5(4) and 5(5) of the Migration (Iraq - United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Regulations. These subregulations are based on paragraph 4 of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1137 (1997), preventing entry into Member States by certain Iraqi officials and military personnel who did not cooperate with the UNSCOM. Iraq has subsequently cooperated with UNSCOM. As a consequence of this cooperation, subregulations (4) and (5) are no longer necessary.

The Regulations commence on 1 November 2001.